Look at this pity party. It's so lame to blame the Union leaders and the contract language when your members won't file on a 8 hour request violation and are tricked into horse trading. Those are automatic payments if violated that has teeth! Go ask a Fed Ex ground guy about his 70 hour work week and not getting paid overtime when you say our contract language is weak. There are billions of laborers that would trade for that contract in a heartbeat!
I assume you've been around awhile. So you know, if there's no financial repercussions - the company will violate you over and over again. You know that!
The local will tell you; work as directed, and then file.
When push comes to shove, the company almost always resorts to "I'm directing you to ,,,,,". There's the line. You'd better make sure your in the right if your going to cross it. So they violate us over and over in that way.
As far as the comparisons to other companies and other situations. That is company talk, in my opinion. It's scary that the Union would also use the, comparison talk to make us feel better about our own situation. When we fall for the "look how bad they have it. We're lucky". What we are essentially doing is entering a; race to the bottom. We're far better off in a race to the top. Bettering ourselves all the way up.
We will always be able to find someone who is worse off than us. That doesn't really help me, personally.
